Wales et al

now i'm just imagining everyone on the bridge constantly doing aerobics, complete with those 80's outfits

or cats, but i repeat myself

I think it's dead :(

"how about we call the state washington and the city can be springfield?"
"Jeremiah you're a genius, now let's go kill some natives to celebrate"

at the same time though that "tuning out" is like getting used to a chafing shoe. Sure you stop thinking about it, but it's still hurting you..

Every now and then the traffic volume in my town goes down so much that all that background noise is completely gone, and it literally changes how the world feels. Suddenly you viscerally feel like you're out on the countryside and everything just feels calm and peaceful.
The constant road noise literally observably makes people stressed, it lowers your lifespan!

americans try to come up with a new name challenge

"oh fuck was it "barbarbar bar barbar" or "barbar barbar bar"???? shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit"

ayn brand

me and the bro platonically raising our kids together

I maintain that the most realistically usable artificial global language would be something inspired by toki pona, but with actual effort put into picking words that are maximally understandable and pronounceable by as many people as possible and is designed to be incredibly difficult to mangle beyond intelligibility.

No even remotely complex rules, nothing fancy whatsoever, just an engineered caveman speech that literally anyone can learn from a pamphlet and reliably use to communicate basic normal things with anyone else. Like the way you end up talking when you just barely know a language and need to communicate "i'm allergic to shellfish, can you guarantee that my food won't have touched any part of an animal with a shell?"

and this is why i make sure any phone i buy is supported by a reputable project like lineageos.